The Amusing Anecdote Thread

[Gelfling Girl]

I don't get the current misuse of the term "sexy" to describe something pleasing... like here several years ago, a member mentioned that DVDAficianado's new website layout was "sexy" and I'm like WT F?

I mean if you see a hot chick walking down the street and say she's "sexy", that's one thing, but anything else like a layout or a new piece of technology, that's just plain messed up.

We live in a strange, strange world. And also, the same girl that called my drawing of Boober "sexy" was asking me if my doodle of Mokey was supposed to be Elmo.

 

[Gonzo's Hobbit]

So, about a year ago I met a guy who said that he was really good at finding old media for a budgetable price. I was teasing around with him and asked if he could find me the sountrack for Muppet Treasure Island for under $30 because I couldn't find one anywhere except ebay and they were all $40 or more. A week later he tells me he can't find it anywhere and he wants to know what is so nice about this CD that it was so expensive. About a month ago he e-mails me and tells me about a bunch of ebay auctions with it. I e-mail him back telling him thank you and to not worry about it, I'd bid on it becaus eI didn't want him to buy something I couldn't pay him back for. So I'm watching the last open auction which is at $21. The bid gets up to $30 and I let it go becaus eI didn't want to pay anymore. Then I get an e-mail from him the next day saying he got the CD for $32. Turns out he's the person that outbid me and he got the CD for me.

 

[Gelfling Girl]

In study skills class, a girl's cell phone rang, so the teacher confiscated it. He then went to his desk and started looking at it, and he said something to her along the lines of "Nice background." The girl later mentioned that her wallpaper on her cell phone was a shirtless picture of Taylor Lautner.

 

[D'Snowth]

Okay, here's one I just remembered...

When I was a kid (probably 10 or so), our youth class was putting on a Christmas pageant for church - the story was a girl and her friend were upset that their Scrooge-like teacher was giving them so much homework around the holidays, and as that girl dozes off doing her homework, she has a dream sequence where she witnesses the events of the birth of Christ; in that dream sequence, the girl's friend was the offspring of the inn-keeper who turned away Mary and Joseph because the inn was full.

Now then, in the original script, the girl's friend was also a girl named Rebecca, HOWEVER, they were short a girl in our youth class, and I had no part to play in the pageant... so saying, the changed the friend's name to Russ and gave me the part. The role was pretty gender-neutral anyway, except for the scene where the two of us had to giggle like... well... girls at the ridiculousness of the teacher.

 

[APRena]

My brush with theater: In 3rd grade, our play was a Fractured Fairytale-type thing, designed so that everyone got a part. I was cast as Beastie #6 (another story for this thread someday) and my costume was *awesome*-- puffy green vest with a hula skirt stuck to it, black snowpants and monster feet-looking boots, my hair got turned into a mane/afro... I was convincing.

At the end when we all got turned into Beauties, I took off all that and had a dress (purple, with flowers-- I DESPISED it.) and tights on underneath, and my hair was done into pigtails. (more despisedness, but the "transformation" was part of my "character") As soon as I came onstage, somebody's little sibling screams, "YOU'RE A GIRL? MOMMY, WHY IS HE--"

Fun times.

 

[Gelfling Girl]

I guess I outta share this story to keep this theater theme going:

So, a few years ago, I was in this theater program in which at the beginning of the play we did some tableau vivants to parody different fairytales, and I was put in the "Cinderella" one with a boy and girl, so I was thinking she'll be Cinderella, he'll be Prince Charming, and I'll be the fairy godmother. Of course, that's not quite what the director was thinking. So, there I was, wearing an overlarge crown that kept falling over my eyes and holding the "glass slipper" (*cough* flip flop *cough cough*) up to the girl's foot while the boy was standing behind us holding the wand and pink butterfly wings in his hands with a look on his face like, "You seriously want me to do this?"

 

[D'Snowth]

Did I ever tellyou guys about the time my parents actually thought I was secretly doing drugs?

For those of you who remember the time several years ago when Tommie was attacked by a pair of wolves, and we kept her in the garage for a few days afterwards, I had to give her her medicine, which comes in little syringes that you squirt into her mouth (no needles); anyway, because she kept putting up a fight, sometimes when I'd let go of the syringes, they'd roll off the top of her cage, and behind, so I didn't bother to pick them up, lol.

So anyway later when it was garage cleaning day, my parents found those syringes, but they had no idea where they came from, or what they were doing there... and the first thing they did, was bring them to me, and ask me in a VERY troubled tone what those were, so I reminded them they were the syringes Tommie's medicine came in, but I never bothered reaching back there to pick them up.

That was a little hurting to think my parents thought I was doing drugs.

 

[Gelfling Girl]

It all started last month in reading class. We had a sub, and she was giving us all the notes on the elements of fantasy. (And anyone who knows me knows that I probably know much more about the topic than her.) She kept referencing fantasy movies, mainly The Wizard of Oz, which eventually led to her saying something like, "...Judy Garland, but none of you know who that is..." So I just look around the room for a second, and of course, I'm the only one familiar with the name.

Although the embarrassment doesn't end there. Not only am I familiar with the name, I just so happen to be that dorky kid who watches Wizard of Oz at least once or twice a month and has seen the musical Wicked and has songs from both the former and the latter on the iPod playlist. (As a matter of fact I'm listening to the deleted scene song "Jitterbug" as of the moment of typing this.)

Well, I guess it's only fair, since I end up just as confused whenever somebody talks about all these pop teen idol stars, but still, it was quite embarrassing to me at least. Although who knows what would have happened if she used Labyrinth as the example and mentioned Jareth/David Bowie.